Cliff Berns
Cliff
War making is war making. Invoking Gandhi and King and justifying armed aggression? Sorry, no, I can't accept that.

I would love to see and share the long list of individuals and corporations who are profiting from war around the world.

Waylon
Sure, good point, but there are just justifications for war. Iraq, clearly, didn't meet that criteria. But going after Al Queda, Taliban…you can't say that's black-and-white right-or-wrong. Buddhism even has teachings on the necessity for war or violence as long as the intent is peace or protecting the innocent.

Cliff
War making is war making. Invoking Gandhi and King and justifying armed aggression? Sorry, no, I can't accept that.

I would love to see and share the long list of individuals and corporations who are profiting from war around the world.

Waylon
Sure, good point, but there are just justifications for war. Iraq, clearly, didn't meet that criteria. But going after Al Queda, Taliban…you can't say that's black-and-white right-or-wrong. Buddhism even has teachings on the necessity for war or violence as long as the intent is peace or protecting the innocent.

I'm so proud of Obama. He demonstrated one more time on the world stage, not only as a great leader but also a humble human being. We need more leaders like him in this 21 century which is full of people with violent, injustice, power hunger, vicious attacks, faults accusation, twisted truth and spread lies to get what they want. Obama not only win the respect of other leaders of the world, also his spirit out shine all his enemy. He is a true leader of the WORLD.

And as long as religion remains a for profit venture (as it always has been), it will continue to degrade our human potential. It will also remain the number one cause of premature human death, until we evolve out of it.

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